From R. F. Cooke   16 November 1875

50a, Albemarle Street, London. W.

Nov. 16 1875

My dear Sir

A set of Electrotypes of the woodcuts in “Climbing Plants” can be had for £3.0.0. & I have ordered to sets to be taken.

The woodcuts are electrotyped & inserted in the stereotype plates & will be done so, in the new edition of “Animals & Plants” & it would confuse not to have them done so now, for Appletons.1

I have ordered the stereotypes to be made & we will take care that they shall have them at a reasonable figure. Insectivorous Plants is still standing in type. Have you any corrections to make, if not we will stereotype that work like all the rest, except the Orchids & Expression.2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
CD was arranging with the US publisher D. Appleton & Co. for American editions of Climbing plants 2d ed. and Variation 2d ed. (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 November [1875] and n. 5.
2
Permanent stereotype plates were made from the original moveable type plates, reducing the cost of reprints but making substantial revisions to the text impossible. Second editions of Orchids and Expression were published by John Murray in 1877 and 1890, respectively.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10260,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10260